How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number 3: A total lack of domain name administration sections

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...